Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in
Corigliano Calabro
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Geography
It is situated near the mouth of a river of the same ...
, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tieri moved in Rome at 18 to study law at university, and in the meanwhile approached acting and enrolled the
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.
Graduated in 1938, he almost immediately made his debut in theater and in film.
[ Soon Tieri became one of the most popular and appreciated young actors, with a predisposition to the comic genre.][ In cinema Tieri specialized in roles on jealous, irascible, nervous boyfriends, and this characterization limited his career and caused his retirement from films in the late 1960s.][ His versatility was revealed especially on stage and on television, that at the end of the 1950s gave him notoriety with a successful adaptation of the ]Dickens
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' novel ''Nicholas Nickleby
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'' and then as host of ''Canzonissima
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'' in 1960.[
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Selected filmography
* '' Mad Animals'' (1939)
* '' The Hussar Captain'' (1940)
* '' C'è sempre un ma!'' (1942)
* '' Disturbance'' (1942)
* '' Document Z-3'' (1942)
* '' Music on the Run'' (1943)
* ''Redemption
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* Pi ...
'' (1943)
* '' Come Back to Sorrento'' (1945)
* '' What a Distinguished Family'' (1945)
* '' Last Love'' (1947)
* '' Mad About Opera'' (1948)
* ''Crossroads of Passion
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'' (1948)
* '' Little Lady'' (1949)
* '' Sicilian Uprising'' (1949)
* '' Toto Looks for a House'' (1949)
* '' The Elusive Twelve'' (1950)
* ''The Transporter
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'' (1950)
* '' Night Taxi'' (1950)
* ''Toto the Sheik
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Plot
Antonio is the humbl ...
'' (1950)
* '' Toto Looks for a Wife'' (1950)
* ''Beauties on Bicycles
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'' (1951)
* '' Song of Spring'' (1951)
* '' The Reluctant Magician'' (1951)
* '' Accidents to the Taxes!!'' (1951)
* '' Toto and the King of Rome'' (1951)
* ''It's Love That's Ruining Me
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The film's sets were designed by the art director Guido Fi ...
'' (1951)
* ''Beauties in Capri
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Cast
* Nando Bruno as Don Violante
* Ave Ninchi as Corne ...
'' (1952)
* ''Matrimonial Agency
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Variat ...
'' (1953)
* '' Cavalcade of Song '' (1953)
* ''Noi siamo le colonne
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Plot
Cast
*Vittorio De Sica as A ...
'' (1956)
* '' Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'' (1958)
* ''The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
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Main cast ...
'' (1958, TV series)
* '' Il raccomandato di ferro'' (1959)
* '' Ciao, ciao bambina!'' (1959)
* '' Non perdiamo la testa'' (1959)
* '' Who Hesitates is Lost'' (1960)
* '' Dreams Die at Dawn'' (1961)
* ''The Joy of Living
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Plot
The story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Uli ...
'' (1961)
*''I due mafiosi
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'' (1964)
* '' Two Mafiamen in the Far West'' (1964)
* '' Soldati e capelloni'' (1967)
References
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1917 births
2006 deaths
People from Corigliano Calabro
Italian male film actors
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian male stage actors